Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > "git status" doesn't "pretend" to write stuff. It really does.
> >
> > You *can* just use "git-runstatus" instead. That's the command that
> > actually does all the heavy lifting. But you can see the difference by
> > doing this:
> >
> >       touch Makefile
> >       git runstatus
> >
> > vs
> >
> >       touch Makefile
> >       git status
> >
> > Notice how the "runstatus" one claims that Makefile is "modified:". That's
> > exactly because it doesn't do the index refresh.
>
> Running refresh internally in runstatus without writing the
> result out _might_ be an option, but that would largely be
> a hack to only help qgit.
>